Alice and her sister are reading on a riverbank. Alice is bored. She sees a talking, pink-eyed rabbit in a waistcoat (who understands time) pass by her, and she follows it. She chases him down a rabbit hole; perhaps she "falls." She sees many mysterious things along the way down the hole. At the bottom she ends up in a hallway with many doors. She finds a glass table with a key. After trying many doors, she finds a tiny door that opens with the key to reveal a beautiful garden. When she realizes she can't fit through the door, she drinks from a bottle labeled "DRINK ME" and shrinks. She tries to climb up the table to get the key, but doesn't succeed. She eats a cake that says "EAT ME" in currants.
Who is involved?
Alice: logical, but not very "smart"; curious; looks at things differently; doesn't worry about consequences, so she is careless; accepts what she comes across; has learned many things in school, but doesn't really know what they mean; adventurous, but usually has to be more proper and elegant; sometimes cautious.
Alice's sister
The White Rabbit
What do you wonder?
Why is Alice outside to begin with?
Where are Alice's parents?
Why does Alice follow such an odd creature as the rabbit down the hole?
Why doesn't Alice's sister help her or stop her?
Why does Alice leave her sister there by herself?
Is Alice's sister studying?
How did all that stuff get stuck in the sides of the rabbit hole?
What is the rabbit late for?
What will happen when Alice eats the cake?
When will Alice grow big again?
Will Alice find the rabbit? Will she get through the little door to the garden?
What is in the garden?
How old is Alice?
Is Alice dreaming?
Is Alice crazy?
Is Alice reading a book out loud?
Does Alice just have an active imagination?
How does Alice perceive the world?
Why does Alice say words she doesn't know?
Why does the author put so many things in parentheses?
Magic Language:
"Oh how I wish I could be shut up like a telescope! I think I could if I only knew how to begin!" (4)
Sample Study of Denotation and Connotation:
Signify
(a) However, the multiplication table doesn't signify. Let's try geography. (p. 9)
(b) Denotation: to make known by sign, speech, or action; to mean something or matter; to have importance; to be an indication of
(c) Connotation: If something doesn't matter, you can just ignore it. If something doesn't signify you might not care about it.
(d) Paraphrase with denotation and connotation.
So, math doesn't matter. As a result, Alice doesn't care about the multiplication tables and just decides to ignore them.
Telescope
(a) "Oh, how I wish I could shut up like a telescope!" (p. 4)
(b) an optical instrument for making distant objects appear near and/or larger
(c) a telescope can collapse into itself and close up and become more compact
(d) Alice wishes she could be closed up like an instrument that makes distant objects appear larger.
What happens?
Alice and her sister are reading on a riverbank. Alice is bored. She sees a talking, pink-eyed rabbit in a waistcoat (who understands time) pass by her, and she follows it. She chases him down a rabbit hole; perhaps she "falls." She sees many mysterious things along the way down the hole. At the bottom she ends up in a hallway with many doors. She finds a glass table with a key. After trying many doors, she finds a tiny door that opens with the key to reveal a beautiful garden. When she realizes she can't fit through the door, she drinks from a bottle labeled "DRINK ME" and shrinks. She tries to climb up the table to get the key, but doesn't succeed. She eats a cake that says "EAT ME" in currants.Who is involved?
Alice: logical, but not very "smart"; curious; looks at things differently; doesn't worry about consequences, so she is careless; accepts what she comes across; has learned many things in school, but doesn't really know what they mean; adventurous, but usually has to be more proper and elegant; sometimes cautious.Alice's sister
The White Rabbit
What do you wonder?
Why is Alice outside to begin with?Where are Alice's parents?
Why does Alice follow such an odd creature as the rabbit down the hole?
Why doesn't Alice's sister help her or stop her?
Why does Alice leave her sister there by herself?
Is Alice's sister studying?
How did all that stuff get stuck in the sides of the rabbit hole?
What is the rabbit late for?
What will happen when Alice eats the cake?
When will Alice grow big again?
Will Alice find the rabbit? Will she get through the little door to the garden?
What is in the garden?
How old is Alice?
Is Alice dreaming?
Is Alice crazy?
Is Alice reading a book out loud?
Does Alice just have an active imagination?
How does Alice perceive the world?
Why does Alice say words she doesn't know?
Why does the author put so many things in parentheses?
Magic Language:
"Oh how I wish I could be shut up like a telescope! I think I could if I only knew how to begin!" (4)Sample Study of Denotation and Connotation:
Signify
(a) However, the multiplication table doesn't signify. Let's try geography. (p. 9)
(b) Denotation: to make known by sign, speech, or action; to mean something or matter; to have importance; to be an indication of
(c) Connotation: If something doesn't matter, you can just ignore it. If something doesn't signify you might not care about it.
(d) Paraphrase with denotation and connotation.
So, math doesn't matter. As a result, Alice doesn't care about the multiplication tables and just decides to ignore them.
Telescope
(a) "Oh, how I wish I could shut up like a telescope!" (p. 4)
(b) an optical instrument for making distant objects appear near and/or larger
(c) a telescope can collapse into itself and close up and become more compact
(d) Alice wishes she could be closed up like an instrument that makes distant objects appear larger.